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Pakistan: Examining a Critical Intersection of Three Major Powers
Pakistan has long struggled with deep civil strife. Since widespread ethnic cleansing after India’s partitioning in the 1940s, a myriad...
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Apr 9, 20165 min read


Apple and the FBI: The Hazard of an International Precedent
In today’s world, defined by unprecedented reliance on constantly evolving technology, an understanding of security is crucial to...
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Apr 6, 20166 min read


Leadership and Crisis in Taiwan’s Oldest Political Party
This party has a glorious history, but our legacy cannot be undone by the current generation,” pleaded Taipei City Councilor Lee Hsin,...
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Apr 5, 20165 min read


The Party’s Media: Free Speech and CCP Legitimacy
Last month, President Xi Jinping of China took a choreographed tour of the country’s largest media organizations, and, with the...
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Apr 4, 20165 min read


Who’s More Sacred: The God-Man or the Yamuna River?
March 11, 2016 marked the beginning of the three-day World Culture Festival (WCF) held in India’s capital, New Delhi, to celebrate “The...
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Apr 4, 20165 min read


Caste in Crisis: The Limits of Positive Discrimination in India
In mid-February, residents of Delhi were met with an unpleasant surprise: seemingly out of nowhere, an unprecedented water crisis forced...
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Mar 29, 20166 min read
The Irish Political Paralysis
Irish politics are in a state of paralysis — the recent general elections resulted in a hung Dáil (the lower house of the Irish...
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Mar 28, 20165 min read


Safeguarding Democracy and Preventing Polarization in Brazil
On the morning of March 4, at the São Bernardo do Campo residence of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilians witnessed a...
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Mar 26, 20167 min read


Infographic: The Zika Virus and Brazil
As it spreads across the Americas, Zika is greatly affecting politics and development. Learn more about the virus and its impact on...
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Mar 25, 20161 min read


Evoism after Evo: Prospects for Transcending Personalistic Politics in Bolivia
Since first being elected in 2005, Evo Morales, Bolivia’s famously football-loving president, has been scoring goal after goal. Morales’...
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Mar 24, 20166 min read


Cold War in the South China Sea
In February, President Barack Obama hosted a summit for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at Rancho Mirage, California,...
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Mar 20, 20166 min read


A Long-Awaited Revolution: Combatting Sexual Violence in Latin America
In a historic ruling this past February, Guatemalan courts convicted a former paramilitary and a retired army officer of committing rape...
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Mar 20, 20165 min read


Zika and the Abortion Rights Debate
What happens when a country without legal abortion tells women not to get pregnant? This was the question many asked when government...
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Mar 18, 20165 min read


Prison overcrowding in Latin America: A plea for less criminalization?
On the night of February 11, the Topo Chico prison turned into a living inferno. An extremely violent riot broke out in the penal...
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Mar 18, 20164 min read


Sunni Tribal Resistance Against ISIL: There’s Been an Awakening. Have You Felt It?
More than a decade after a US-led coalition drove out Iraqi insurgents and al-Qaeda fighters from Fallujah during a brutal offensive in...
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Mar 17, 20168 min read


PiS’d Off: Why Eastern Europe’s most successful democracy is backsliding
In a protest about the Eastern Bloc’s future, the public station Polskie Radio wasn’t just handing out tote bags. The station played the...
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Mar 17, 20167 min read


State-Owned, Unenterprising: Recognizing South Africa’s institutional failure
South Africa’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are in a state of crisis. Communications, transport, mail, water, and electricity delivery...
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Mar 17, 20166 min read


Italian Brain Drain
“I came. I saw. I left.” That’s the new motto of Italy’s youth. Over 150,000 Italians have relocated to London in the past eight years....
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Mar 16, 20166 min read


Music Fit for a Kingpin: How popular culture is redefining cartels’ social role
“With a goat’s horn and bazooka at our necks. Sending heads flying if anyone gets in the way. We’re bloodthirsty, crazies deep in the...
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Mar 16, 20168 min read


No Country for Yemen: Reevaluating US military strategy in the Middle East
It’s easy to understand why the Yemeni Civil War has earned the moniker “the forgotten war.” Over the past few months, headlines about...
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Mar 16, 20164 min read
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